Re: "Difficult" clauses
From: | Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> |
Date: | Friday, May 11, 2007, 17:32 |
> On Wed, 9 May 2007 16:02:59 +0200, taliesin the storyteller
> <taliesin-conlang@...> wrote:
>
> >Taruven is nearing (syntactic) completeness, and I'm looking for
> >complex clauses to test with. What's your favorite sentences to
> >test things like clause embedding, clause chaining, long
> >distance anaphora etc., and what types of "hard" problems am I
> >missing?
>
Do you recall the "Foucault's Pendulum" text that appeared here some time
back? Very complex. Here's the English/Kash--
http://cinduworld.tripod.com/foucault.pdf
Originally in French I think; not sure if Carsten gave that.
Another, more narrative, from June 2002, offered up by John Cowan:
http://cinduworld.tripod.com/texts.htm
with slight adaptations for the Kash version; the Archive should have the
original version.